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Richard Strauss’ 1905 opera Salome (“zahl-oh-may”) about Salome and John the Baptist was so graphically violent that it was banned at the Metropolitan Opera in New York for decades.
“Music is a friend of labor for it lightens the task by refreshing the nerves and spirit of the worker.” - William Green
Eight times Tony Award winning American choreographer Bob Fosse choreographed his first Jazz Dance in a nightclub when he was just 15 years old!
“Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.” - Henry Ward Beecher